curvaceous

curvaceous
Synonyms and related words:
Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, becoming, bent, billowing, billowy, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, charming, comely, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, fair, geosynclinal, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, labyrinthine, likely, lovely to behold, mazy, meandering, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rounded, serpentine, shapely, sightly, sinuous, slender, stacked, statuesque, tortuous, undulant, wavy, well-built, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

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  • curvaceous — adj. having a pronounced womanly shape; having a slender waist with prominent breasts and hips. [chiefly dialect] Syn: bosomy, buxom, full bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • curvaceous — 1936, U.S. colloquial, from CURVE (Cf. curve) + facetious use of Mod.L. botanical suffix meaning of a certain kind. First recorded reference is to Mae West …   Etymology dictionary

  • curvaceous — [adj] voluptuous, full figured bosomy, buxom, curvesome, curvilinear, curvy, rounded, shapely, statuesque, well developed, well proportioned, well rounded, zaftig*; concepts 406,490 Ant. flat …   New thesaurus

  • curvaceous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (especially of a woman or a woman s figure) having an attractively curved shape …   English terms dictionary

  • curvaceous — [kər vā′shəs] adj. [ CURV(E) + ACEOUS] having a full, shapely figure: said of a woman …   English World dictionary

  • curvaceous — also curvacious adjective Date: circa 1935 having or suggesting the curves of a well proportioned feminine figure < a curvaceous actress >; broadly having a smoothly curving shape < a curvaceous coastline > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • curvaceous — [[t]kɜː(r)ve͟ɪʃəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (approval) If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body. ...a curvaceous blonde. Syn: curvy Ant: skinny …   English dictionary

  • curvaceous — cur|va|ceous [kə:ˈveıʃəs US kə:r ] adj [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: curve] having an attractively curved body shape used about women ▪ a tall, curvaceous young woman …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • curvaceous — cur|va|ceous [ kɜr veıʃəs ] adjective a curvaceous woman has large breasts, a small waist, and wide HIPS …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • curvaceous — UK [kɜː(r)ˈveɪʃəs] / US [kɜrˈveɪʃəs] adjective a curvaceous woman has large breasts, a small waist, and wide hips …   English dictionary

  • curvaceous — /kɜˈveɪʃəs / (say ker vayshuhs) adjective (of a woman) having a full and shapely figure: *The Victorians … preferred curvaceous, flaccid looking women such as Lillie Langtry. –west australian, 1992. {curv(e) + aceous} …  

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